Conference on Substance Abuse – April 6-7, 2006

NSU’s Center for Continuing and Professional Studies will present “Substance Abuse: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Across the Lifespan and Across Cultures” on April 6 and 7 at the university’s east campus, 3100 SW 9th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale.

The conference is designed to increase understanding of the patterns, prevalence, and differences in substance abuse addiction and recovery across cultures in South Florida. It will also serve to increase understanding of how to build resilience and facilitate recovery.

Offering 13.5 Continuing Education Units to registered participants, the conference is sponsored by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; United Way of Broward County Commission on Substance Abuse; Nova Southeastern University; the Substance Abuse and Health Care Services Division of the Broward County Human Services Department; and the Broward Coalition for Optimal Behavioral Health and Aging.

Presenters are Jim Hall, the director of the new Center for the Study and Prevention of Substance Abuse at NSU; William L. White, a senior research consultant at Chestnut Health Systems/Lighthouse Institute and a board member of the Recovery Alliance and Wellbriety for Prisons, Inc.; and Mark B. Sobell, Ph.D., ABPP, currently a professor at the Center for Psychological Studies at NSU and co-director of NSU’s Guided Self-Change Clinic.

CEUs will be provided by the Broward County Human Services Department-Substance Abuse and Health Care Services Division. Register online at www.nova.edu/cwis/ce or call 954-262-8789.